Culture: Finance

Mr. Hunt:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was spent on strategic commissioning in (a) museums (b) galleries and (c) libraries in each of the last five years. [199838]

Mr. Sutcliffe:
Over the past five years through our Strategic Commissioning programme DCMS and DCSF (formerly DfES) have jointly provided the following funds for education and community based work delivered by museums and galleries across England.

Funding (£ million)

2003-04

2.6

2004-05

2.35

2005-06

4.7

2006-07

4.7

2007-08

4.7

Culture: Young People

Mr. Hoban:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport with reference to his 21 Apr 2008 : Column 1734W
Department's press release of 13 February 2008 on the Find Your Talent scheme, whether cultural events attended outside school hours will count towards the intention to offer children five hours of culture a week. [196515]

Margaret Hodge:
The Find Your Talent programme of 10 pilots will trial ways of offering young people a range of cultural opportunities for five hours a week.

This will include activities which take place during the core school day, in extended schools and those offered by local authorities and other providers outside of school time.

Mr. Jim Cunningham:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what recent steps the Government have taken to provide opportunities for young people to engage in cultural activities. [196889]

Mr. Sutcliffe [holding answer 26 March 2008]: We are committed to giving young people access to high quality cultural activities and continue to make significant investment in this area.

For example in November 2007 we announced a total investment of £332 million in school music over the next three years.

We also recently announced that a further £110 million will be allocated to the successful Creative Partnerships programme and that £5.5 million will go towards supporting youth dance over the same period.

We continue to invest in museums education, through both our programme of strategic commissioning which we will invest over £13 million in the next three years, and through our support for the Renaissance in the Regions programme.

Building on this, we announced on 13 February 2008 our plans for a Find Your Talent programme of 10 pilots that will trial ways of offering young people a range of cultural opportunities for five hours a week in and out of school.

We are seeking applications from partnerships in local areas around the country and have published a prospectus setting out a core range of activities we believe young people should be able to engage with. What we learn from this will inform our plans for a national roll out.

Departmental Contracts

Mr. Hoban:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what contracts were awarded by his Department to (a) KPMG, (b) PricewaterhouseCoopers, (c) Ernst and Young, (d) McKinsey, (e) Deloitte and (f) other consultancy firms in each of the last 12 months; and what the (i) purpose and (ii) value was of each of these contracts. [196586]

Mr. Sutcliffe:
The following contracts were awarded by the Department in the last 12 months:

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Company

Contract

Value (£)

(a) KPMG





(b) PricewaterhouseCoopers

Assessment of World Heritage Site

69,000

Impact of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games

78,000

(c) Ernst and Young





(d) McKinsey

Consultancy Support for DCMS Transformation Programme

38,500

(e) Deloitte

Review and compliance of ICT Security Strategy

58,000

Support for delivery of transformation programme

104,000

(f) TFG International

Specialist Advice to Government Olympic Executive on 2012

50,000

Organisation Consulting Partnership LLP

Advice on Horserace Betting Levy

59,000

Veredus

Recruitment of Chair for Sport England

21,000

The Work Foundation

Consultancy on Creative Economy Programme Green Paper

49,000

Saxton Bamfylde Hever

Recruitment of Chair for English Heritage

36,000

Odgers Ray Berndtson

Recruitment of Chair for Olympic Delivery Authority

35,000

Recruitment for Head of Projects in Government Olympic Executive

35,000)

Recruitment of Director for Culture

10,000

Ql Consulting

Security Audit of Business Continuity Planning

28,000

Stanton Harris

Facilitation of DCMS Board Awayday

15,000

Mr. Hunt:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what contracts his Department has with Euclid; and what the combined monetary value of such contracts is. [198226]

Margaret Hodge [holding answer 1 April 2008]:Euclid is currently contracted by DCMS to act as the UKs cultural contact point for the European Unions Culture programme. This contract has a monetary value of £50,000 per year for two years. This sum is match funded by the European Commission. Euclid also holds the contract to promote the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue in the UK. The cost of this contract was a one off payment of £10,000.

Departmental Legislation

Chris Huhne:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what new criminal offences have been created by primary legislation sponsored by his Department since July 2007. [198310]

Margaret Hodge:
No new criminal offences have been created by primary legislation sponsored by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport since July 2007.

Departmental Manpower

Dan Rogerson:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many (a) permanent civil service posts (b) permanent non-civil service posts and (c) temporary or agency workers in employment there were in his Department in each month since May 2005. [199625]

Mr. Sutcliffe:
Information on the number of permanent staff and temporary and agency workers in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport is in the table. There are no permanent non-civil service posts. Civil service statistics are collected on the number of employees and not the number of posts.